The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-02
SHERMAN'S FUNNY IDEAS.
HE ADDRESSES THE ILLINOIS
STATE LEGISLATURE.

Claims for the Republican Party and
It's Past Record.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL, June 1.-Senator
Sherman, on the invitation of the Legisla-
ture, this afternoon addressed the members
of that body, and a distinguished assemblage
of prominent Republican politicians from
all sections, and citizens and ladies, on the
political questions of the day. His text was
The principles and tendency of the two
great parties" Referring to the existing
issues, he said: 'The future opens before us
an infinite variety of questions which will
turn on the extent of the national authority.
Revenues must be reduced. This the Re
publican party did many times since the
war, and carefully selected for the repeal or
reduction the taxes on home production, and
the duties on articles that did not compete
with home industry,
protective duty has been placed on
sugar for the benefit of the planters of
Louisiana, but we now propose as means
of reducing the surplus revenue to
largely reduce this tax, and for the protec-
tion of the sugar growers we propose
TO pay out of the duties ON sugar a bounty
for the home production of all kinds of
This policy of protection has been extended
to the products of the farm and the yield of
the mines, as well as the fabrics of the
mechanic and manufacturer On this levy
ing of taxes is made the means of the
national growth and development, nearly
trebbling in the last twenty years our
domestic manufactures, and at the same
time by competition reducing the prices.
But by the Confederate construction of our
1or oil
BY their theory we may have imposed bur-
dens, but cannot confer any benefit,
and now, the immediate re-
suit of the Democratic, or
Confederate ascendency, is to be struggle
to break down our Industrial system. They
now propose to reduce the duty on the arti-
cles that we can and do now produce and
thus bring our skilled artisans into direct
competition with foreign labor that will in
evitably reduce the price of our domestic
labor The farmer, with the wool duty
free, must either kill his sheep or reduce the
price Of his wool, and SO with every article
of domestic production. But even on this
policy they cannot agree. With an
exclusive power over the revenue
bills they can agree upon no
proposition for the reduction of the taxes
while the surplus revenue, drawn from the
Gfe-blood of the people, accumulates in the
idea will prevail in that party The Repub-
lican party, embracing in it the great body
of the producers of the country, has uni
formly, both by State and national legisla-
tion, adopted every just measure that has
been proposed to improve their condition
to promote employment, to regulate the
hours of labor, and a prompt pay in good
money, and stands ready to adopt every
just measure to open their way to comfort
Il 90 sa1 h.. r.
The Confederate idea is that Congress has no
power to do any of these things. 1t is UNI
constitutional. The Democratic party there
has opposed the homestead law, the tariff
laws, and in many of the States, especially
where their strength lies, have opposed wise
laws for the protection of laborers. There
are some things that laws cannot do They
cannot regulate the price of labor or any
thing else This can only be done by the
law of supply and demand. The American
laborers do not desire such a law They
only want free and ready means of con-
testing with capital for fair division of
the results of production We have no room
in this country for Anarchists or Socialists.
the worst productions of despotic govern
ments.
''All our worlingmen want is an open field
and a fair chance, with the
right Of organization, cooperation
and the friendly sympathy of all
classes and conditions of men. The Con-
federate idea had its origin in slavery and
now has its natural fruits in the millions Of
laborers deprived of the constitutional
rights by controlling physical force and
violence. No such servitude of labor can
exist in a Republican community.
"And so, my fellow citizens, you may run
the gamut of all the political questions that
divide the two parties and you will find the
line of demmcation is Union and Confeder-
ate, Republican and Democratic | am not
opposed to Confederate soldiers, but to Con-
federate IDEAS Many Confederate
soldiers were true to the Union
until drawn by State pride
TO fight for the Confederacy | have no
dislike for the Democrats, many of whom
cherish as my dearest friends, but do
dislike the tendency of that party to Con-
federate ideas. They taunt us with waving
the bloody shirt. We believe they wave
the Confederate flag. jefferson Davis says:
rights they fought for. The resolutions of
the Democrats of Kentucky are, in effect,
extracts from the Confederate constitution,
and Confederates are selected as candidates.
''The Democratic party is the left wing of
the new Confederate army.
"Let no man be misled into the conclusion
that all the vital issues dividing the two
parties has been settled. There are many
things that lie near the heart of the Ameri-
can people They demand fair ballot and
a free count; they wish to produce every
thing in this country for which the God of
nature has given us the raw materials, or
which is suited TO our climate. Every
measure should be supported that will tend
to protract and foster the home industries.
The education of the rising generation, with
out respect to race, color or previous condi-
ton, ought TO be constant object of de-
sire, not only by the local and
State governments, but by the
national government. The equal en-
joyment of every civil and political
right given by the constitution, should be
secured by every legal and constitutional
means. The shadows and preiudices of the
past should be lifted. by the lights of mod
eru civilization. and the American people
should feel that they are not citizens of mere
States or local communities, but Of great
and powerful nation.
"If have correctly stated the aims and
tendencies of the two parties, the Republ-
ca" party is the only one fit 10 carry out
such policy. Our ad~ergqries may brood
over the dead past and mourn the decay Of
the Confederate ideas, but the Re
publicans hail with unbounded salts
faction every advance Of the country in
strength and power, at home and abroad
Conscious that this is consistent with the
full powers of the State, county and local
sovereignty, reaching 10 every family and
homestead in the land, we brood over no
lost cause, but look forward hopefully 10
reap for the future generations the great